Files associated with replicating the analyses contained in
Gordon, Sanford C., and Alastair Smith. 2004. "Quantitative Leverage through Qualitative Knowledge: Augmenting the Statistical Analysis of Complex Causes." Forthcoming, Political Analysis.

There are seven associated files:

Note that these files write to and look for files in directories that may not exist on your computer. Use with caution.

A. Simulations (note: we set the random seed at the beginning of each file to insure replicability). 

1) throbit1.prg. A Gauss program that runs the simulations that appear in Table 1.
2) throbit2.prg. A Gauss program that runs the simulations that appear in Tables 2 and 3.
3) throbit3.prg. A Gauss program that runs the simulations that appear in Tables 4 and 5.
4) trubit1.prg. A GAUSS program for comparing the properties of Boolean/partial observability probit with a maximum likelihood implementation of the truncated bivariate probit model.

B. IMF application

5) gordonsmith.dta. A Stata data file containing the limited set of variables and observations used in Gordon and Smith paper. 
6) Selection_estimates_sept2003_GordonSmith.do. A Stata do file that performs the MCMC estimates of the trubit model, and MLE estimate of the trubit, throbit and Boolean probit models
7) programs_for_MLE_MCMC_est.do. The selection_estimates do file makes calls to procedures in this file.
